A grid-filled pair of leaves standing tallest at the hinge stiles and sweeping down in one long curve to the centre joint. A second rail follows that sweep just below the top, so the upper course of square openings bends with it, and two more courses of squares run below the mid rail. Finished mid-brown with black spade-tipped straps at the corners, hung between stone columns.
Nothing here is curved except the top, and the second rail is what makes that curve work: it runs parallel to the sweep a few inches down, so the row of openings under it stretches at the tall end and shortens toward the centre rather than being cut off square. Every one of those squares is a slightly different shape, and the grid below the mid rail stays regular to prove it.
This is the entrance for a property whose gateposts are already stone or timber — the grid sits into that kind of masonry as joinery rather than as ironwork bolted between columns. Where The Inman Gate fills its leaves with worked scroll, this one has no curl in it anywhere; the only ornament is the black straps at the corners, set against the brown to mark where the leaf is hung.
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